ALIEN conspiracists believe they may have found "evidence of former life on Mars" - that was "wiped out by a volcano".

The latest crazy claim to emerge from UFO hunters spending hours sifting through NASA images beamed back from Mars is that they have found the stone-entombed corpse of a young child laying among rocks on the Martian surface.

It has led to claims that there may have once been intelligent life on Mars that may have been wiped out by a mega volcano.

Fore years conspiracists have claimed that there was once life but it was devastated by an intergalactic nuclear war.

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The "baby" is the latest in a string of so-called discoveries found in NASA images of Mars over the past year.

These have included, trilobite fossils, crabs, lobsters, mice, and even a bear.

While alien hunters are convinced these strange shapes in the rock and and are evidence of life or former life on Mars, NASA and other scientists say they are just cases of pareidolia, whereby the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in textures or patterns.

The UFO buffs are having none of it though and continue to seek out new finds.